TBAY: Assassin!Snape Meets Saboteur!Snape (WAS Saboteur!Snape's Next Mission)

[sophineclaire]

No: HPFGUIDX 46952

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "charisjulia" <charisjulia at h...> wrote:
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> Derannimer wrote:
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> >I think that, in order to become a Death Eater, you have to bind 
> >yourself to Lord Voldemort, in an arrangement whereby he gives 
you nifty extra powers, and you give him *you*: your service, 
possibly your powers to some degree (which could only add to his 
strength), 
> >and, naturally (this is a "deal with the devil", after all) your 
> >actual soul. This is a "binding magical contract;" it cannot be 
> >broken, no matter how much you repent, no matter how badly you 
> >want to renege--you keep your nifty powers, and Lord Voldemort   
> > keeps your soul. Your body, and your intellect, and (obviously) 
your will can go on their merry way, but some fairly substantial 
part of you splits off from the rest and stays with Voldemort.
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> Derannimer trails off nervously. Charis Julia is standing stock 
still 
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SophineClaire, who had been sipping on a Virgin Pina Colada          
( despite repeated offers from George to let him "Spice it up"), 
looks up from her notes on Vampires and speaks up.

" I think I can find the right can(n)on for this!"
 SHe sifts through her bookbag, and next to her Psychology texts 
finds a small little can(n)on labelled 'Delerium'

* It's the title of this dreadful, but somewhat intriging B-Movie 
about the same sort of subject, only everyone shares their abilities 
with the community with the exception of one or two "Puppet masters"*

"If we take this theory and place it in the Graveyard scene of GOF.
Here is Pettigrew, a powerful ( He is an animagus) wizard but 
somewhat incompetent (from my biased point of view and the opinion 
of other teachers in POA) in the other forms of magic. How oculd he, 
even with assistance from Voldemort, brew that oh-so-necessary 
potion to bring voldemort back into human-like physical form.?"

"Sounds like fairly complicated stuff. Out of Pettigrew's league, 
but not out of Snape's."

Sophineclaire noticed she had a couple of heads turned to her 
direction and decided to continue, without the help of alcohol.

"Does your approach involve any Banginess?" George asked , flashing 
his best smile and trying to spike Sophine's drink with a flask of 
nettlewine.

"Not so fast Cassanova! You might be charged with serving to minors 
here." George replaced the flask to it's place behind the bar rather 
dejectedly "And besides George, we all know Cindy is the determiner 
of all things Bangy, lets wait till she gets her second wind. "

"There are two or three variants one can take, depending on how much 
you like Snape, and in no specific order of Banginess:

Variant the first: "What makes you think Snape was so smart anyways?"
As far as we know (Via Sirius) Snape was, academically speakings, 
knew more curses than most seventh years, interested in the Dark 
Arts and we all assume he was a star a potions ( or at least ranked 
up there). What if that was it?. He might have scraped by in 
herbology, been dismal in charms and abysmal in ancient runes. What 
would make this sad-sack so special to Voldemort when there might 
have been several more qualified people looking for a position in 
the inner circle? Snape's potion skills might have worked in his 
favoured. By giving this skill to the DeathEaters, he would gain 
back 8, 10, or 12-fold. All of a sudden, this Neville Longbottom has 
more power than he knows what to do with. A patronus here, a bundle 
of ropes there, all fun and games at first but it would get kind of 
boring after awhile. But.....

Variant the second: "Snape is uber-competent, I'll give you that. 
But could he have gone in blindly?"

"Are you sure you don't want me..."
"No George, I'm on a roll..."
"That's what I'm worried about"

Snape had a reputation at Hogwarts from what book 3 and book 4 
purports. From the Sirius Perspective, Snape was slimy and other 
unfriendly adjectives. He was sneaky and sly, an overall nasty guy. 
Lollipops is a flop, because even Lily would want him, not!.
Looking through past HPFGU logs, running with SLytherins does not 
encompass morning jogs. So if popularity was the key, did Snape 
follow these foulweather friends blindly?
Here are a group of Kids (Avery, Lestrange,) that Snape has know for 
a good portion of his life ( duration of friendship or if it was 
even firendship at all is unknown). They have the same backgrounds, 
same interests, same predjudices, Voldemort seems to be the way to 
go. Somehow, Snape is deluded about Voldemort's true aims and 
practices and is somewhat secluded from all of the main action 
because his particular skill requires solitude and time. While he 
slaves in the basement of Malfoy manner on a polyjuice potion or 
some sort of effective household cleaner for Narcissa ( " Oh you 
know how blood stains are on Persian rugs") The DE's working the 
field discover a new found or improved ability to brew some of the 
more particularly nasty potions that are in Snape's memory bank. 
Snape, being the the epitome of wizarding skill, senses no difference
 in power, trudges away cleaning Voldemort's Dirty Linens. Then 
there is this big DE hoe-down in Hyde Park one night. It could be 
bad and they need someone to whip up a few healing potions on the 
spot if need be. So SNape, his skin a little more sallow and teeth a 
little more yellow, is invited to come along since most of the field 
workers will be, well, 'working'. FOr the first time, he sees just 
what is going on and.......

Where V.1 and V.2 leave off depends on the amount of Disgust/shame/ 
redemption worthy moments you want to give this guy.

V.1 relies heavily on SNape's desire for acknowledgement and less on 
admirable qualities. Maybe he got annoyed with the other DE's being 
praised for this potion or that when they actually came from his 
abilities. Maybe he was afraid that he would lose these new found 
abilities if he publically left VD and choose to spy of DD under 
cover.

V.2 goes more along the lines of redeemable!Snape. More bangy than 
the last and requires Snape to be a little more stupid than cannon 
would make us assume ( personally, I think this moment was the 
growing-up experience for Snape, to use very understated terms. I do 
not think that 17y/o SNape had the knowledge or dare I say 
it, "Maturity' of 35y/o Snape) and a little more compassionate. 
Snape is disgusted by what he sees. His 'friends', the people 'he 
trusts', grossly misusing the skills he has so carefully honed to 
torture and kill muggles in the most painful way possible. God it's 
a shock, how could he be so stupid....

Either way, that mark, that connection has lasting effects.
In the Variant one stance, since half of his fellow DE's are in jail 
an therefore not using their magic, Snape is free to their power. 
Using it while they wither in Azkaban. Years of actual inactivity in 
prison but yet, maybe the LeStranges are listing what charms Severus 
has casted during their incarceration using their abilities...

Variant 2 leaves Snape permanently in doubt, whether the 
effectiveness of his charms or transfigurations are actually due to 
his sole effort or derived from one of his old classmates. To 
counteract this, he dismisses wandwaving and devotes himeself, abeit 
sadly, to Potions and the dark arts, the gifts he has always had.

* Some would counter with the rope speels that Snape casts here and 
there but it has been discussed that Curses are something that 
inhibit the person it is being cast on. I believe those rope spells 
are a form of hexes/curses*


SophineClaire looks around the bar, a few nods are in her direction, 
and there is a muttering of "is it bangy though? is it really bangy 
enough..."

George leans over the bar "That is quite mouthful and if you can 
back it up more, you can stay but if you're not going to purchase 
anymore beverages, I'll have to ask you to leave."

Sophine smiles sweetly at George, polishes her "Snape: My Byronic 
Superhero" badge and says " Dear George, get me two Uri Gellars, I 
do believe I have my fake I.D. with me"


SophineClaire